The work of American modernist novelist Evelyn Scott has been compared favorably to that of Henry James and Marcel Proust. The Narrow House is a masterpiece of moodiness that offers keen -- and often unsettling -- insight into the inner workings of the human psyche. more...

Evelyn Sharp was a suffrage activist who left home as a young woman against her family's wishes, supporting herself as a journalist and writer of novels, many of which were geared to younger audiences. The author's spirited independence is clearly evident in Katharine, the heroine of The Making of a Prig, who gradually gathers the strength... more...

Bobble Strickland, an Austin elementary school principal, didn't really believe ex-army officer Ray Caldwell was coming on to her. She wasn't a young girl anymore, and, besides, she had bigger priorities than a relationship -- such as fighting her own daughter in court for custody of her grandchild. Yet, strong, honest Ray had the "right stuff" to... more...

"I'll fix it for you. You don't have to cry," said the tall man with the deep, Barry White kind of voice. But Audrey Roberts wasn't just crying about her flat tire. Her tears were for things that couldn't be mended. After all, how do you fix the pain of finding your lawyer husband in bed with someone else? And how do you heal the wound of having... more...

Wearing thick glasses, speaking in her thick Icelandic accent, and, well, seeming a touch thick, Bjork stormed the public consciousness in 2000 as an unlikely heroine in the experimental musical film Dancer In the Dark . Army of She is an in-depth look at the woman who first took the public stage twenty-three years ago, analyzing her rise from child... more...

Evelyn Waugh's short fiction reveals in miniaturized perfection the elements that made him the greatest satirist of the twentieth century. The stories collected here range from delightfully barbed portraits of the British upper classes to an alternative ending to Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust; from a "missing chapter" in the life of Charles Ryder,... more...

"Does it have a name?" Vivian asked Walter. What would be the proper question to ask her husband of nearly twenty years, when he brings home his illegitimate baby as casually as a bag of groceries? Although Walter's frequent infidelities became increasingly obvious to Vivian, she struggled to accept them. After all, she reasoned, they came with the... more...